At the time that the music was growing, taking on a structure - yes, you would have felt the isolation that Australia experienced from the rest of the Western world. The phrase 'tyranny of distance' has been used for this history. Australia had the same local concentration and isolation that you would have seen in South Africa, Sheffield or Akron in that period - and therefore a mixture of benefit and loss. Benefit - it is in these places that new things grow. Loss - often they are never recognised. There could not have been Sevs in London, but our travel to London made us known.
Tom Ellard

No, there would not have been a Severed Heads had we started now. So much pressure on young bands to conform. Be dance. Be retro. Be experimental. No lyrics. San serif fonts. Blah. At least thank god, you don't have to be Autechre this year. (You have to sound like a Reaktor Library preset instead).
Tom Ellard